Stevens Email

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Your Stevens Email account is automatically created upon your entry into the Stevens Community. You are given 100 MB of quota, accessible using POP3, IMAP, and web mail clients. Your quota may be increased by contacting the Stevens Information Help desk, but we recommend Backing Up Your Email.

You will need your Pipeline Account information to authenticate.

Contents 1 Webmail 2 Desktop Mail 3 POP3, IMAP 3.1 POP3 3.2 IMAP

Webmail

• Pipeline Account - logging into Pipeline will grant you access using the Pipeline Webclient
• Nexus - logging into nexus.stevens.edu will give you access to your email using a simpler email client. Nexus is the Stevens Mail server. The web mail client is hooked directly to the mail system.
• Webmail - webmail.stevens.edu was added in 2008. This is now the preferred webmail client for campus email.

Desktop Mail

• Microsoft Outlook - You can use Outlook to access your Pipeline email.
• Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a popular alternative to access your Pipeline email.

Both clients support IMAP and POP.

POP3, IMAP

POP3 and IMAP are two different ways of accessing mail. We recommend using IMAP as it will allow you to synchronize your email to multiple computers. This is helpful when: your computer becomes inaccessible, you purchase a new computer, or you want to read your email on the web.

POP3

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3. With this protocol, your messages are downloaded from the mail server to your local machine and then removed from the mail server. For more information, you can consult Wikipedia's article on POP3

IMAP

IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. With this protocol, you local mailbox is synced with the mail server. This allows you to keep your messages stored on both your local computer and the mail server. This is better in case something were to happen to your local machine, your email would still be safe; however, this approach also uses up your allocated space on the mail server, so you have to make sure that you do not exceed your space limit. For more information, you can check out Wikipedia's article on IMAP